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  • When the color was used to create an image, permanent coloring materials ensured that the balance of colors, the coloris or coloritto, would remain.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Praeterea coeruleum montanum, licet ob hilaritatem, elegantiam et imprimis ob aptitudinem sui coloris, [98] quippe qui = b0 [i.e., b12], prae reliquis pigmentis coeruleis eligendum, non a quouis ita tractari potest, vt colore aequabili chartam inducat.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • Les coloris les plus appréciés sont les traditionnels blanc, bleu marine, noir ou gris.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • Si residet melancholia naturalis, tales plumbei coloris aut nigri, stupidi, solitarii.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Presbytero Johan. habitant subfusci sunt, in Zeilan et Malabar nigri, aeque distantes ab Aequatore, eodemque coeli parallelo: sed hoc magis mirari quis possit, in tota America nusquam nigros inveniri, praeter paucos in loco Quareno illis dicto: quae hujus coloris causa efficiens, coelive an terrae qualitas, an soli proprietas, aut ipsorum hominum innata ratio, aut omnia?

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Teyssèdre, Bernard, (1957), Roger de Piles et les débats sur le coloris au siècle de Louis XIV, Paris:

    18th Century French Aesthetics Morizot, Jacques 2006

  • Nam primò nascitur in folijs olerum, quæ iuxta magnas arbores plantantur, sicut nos ponimus vites; et producunt fructum, sicut racemi nostri producunt vuas; sed quandò maturescunt sunt viridis coloris, et sic vindemiantur vt inter nos vindemiantut vuæ, et ponuntur grana ad solem vt desiccentur: quæ desiccata reponuntur in vasis terreis, et sic fit piper, et custoditur.

    The Journal of Friar Odoric 2004

  • Sunt autem crocodili speciales serpentes, coloris virgulati de croceo et nigro, cum quatuor cruribus, et tibijs et latis pedum vngulis.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Quod quidem, licèt aqua sit satis clara, dicitur ibi Rubrum propter lapillos, et arenas subrufi coloris: et continet ibi nunc temporis passus maris in latitudine ferè sex leucas.

    The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville 2004

  • Et sedent omhes mulieres super equos sicut viti diuersificantes coxas; et ligant cucullas suas panno serico aerij coloris super renes, et alia fascia stringunt ad mamillas: et ligant vnam peciam albam sub occulis, quæ descendit vsque ad pectus.

    The iournal of frier William de Rubruquis a French man of the order of the minorite friers, vnto the East parts of the worlde. An. Dom. 1253. 2004

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